PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea Cabrera Urban, S Castillo Gimenez, V Costa, MJ Fassi, F Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Hernandez Jimenez, Y Higon-Rodriguez, E Irles Quiles, A Kaci, M Lacasta, C Lacuesta, VR March, L Marti-Garcia, S Miñano, M Mitsou, VA Moles-Valls, R Moreno Llacer, M Oliver Garcia, E Pedraza Lopez, S Perez Garcia-Estañ, MT Romero Adam, E Ros, E Salt, J Sanchez Martinez, V Solans, CA Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Torro Pastor, E Valero, A Valladolid Gallego, E Valls Ferrer, JA Villaplana Perez, M Vos, M TI Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector SO Journal of High Energy Physics JI J. High Energy Phys. PY 2013 BP 033 EP 40pp VL 06 IS 6 DI 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)033 LA English DE Hadron-Hadron Scattering AB A search for pair-produced third generation scalar leptoquarks is presented, using proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV at the LHC. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb(-1). Each leptoquark is assumed to decay to a tau lepton and a b-quark with a branching fraction equal to 100%. No statistically significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed. Third generation leptoquarks are therefore excluded at 95% confidence level for masses less than 534 GeV. ER